TechnoEarthMama

After hearing this week about mercury being found in high fructose corn syrup and in food products containing HFCS, I decided to be slightly more careful than usual about the groceries I bought. I normally try to buy more whole, healthy foods than processed foods anyway, and I often do read labels, but not [...]

It’s January 30, and the last thermometer I saw said it’s 37 degrees, but it really is time to start thinking about gardening again.  For me, this is complicated by the fact that we’re thinking about moving (not out of Portland, just someplace cheaper and/or possibly a different neighborhood).  So I don’t want to put [...]

I’m still sick.  I keep having these violent sneezes that sap all my energy.  I’ve still got something for you to read, though, courtesy of the Willamette Week.  If you watch Live @ 7 on KGW in Portland, you might have seen some of these items, but there’s much more!  Willamette Week has a whole [...]

I’m sick.  Blech.  So what’s a TechnoEarthMama to do?
Well, I did spend a good deal of time with the laptop.  There’s your tech.
I kept a kid home with me today.  And the other two had a half day of school.  So Mama was still at least partly on the job.
And I drank Good Earth tea!  [...]

My six year old daughter has a talent for hitting a baseball.  She naturally uses the correct form and follows through and everything.  We’ve been thinking about signing her up for Little League, which (if I remember correctly; they don’t post it online) costs over $50, plus required fundraising.
My nine year old daughter enjoys basketball.  [...]

January 17th to 24th is National Thrift Week, which actually became defunct in 1967.  There’s a campaign on to bring it back, though.  J.D. Roth explained a bit more about it over at Get Rich Slowly.  “they saw it not as a way to encourage miserly behavior, but instead to cultivate responsible consumerism and [...]

I’m still making my way through The Mindful Way Through Depression. Today, I tried an exercise called the walking meditation. The idea is that you walk, with no particular destination (in fact, they suggest walking back and forth across the same short distance), concentrating on the sensations of the feet touching and leaving [...]

“I’d like to ride my bike to work, but I just don’t think I can do it,” said my husband this morning.  “I’m not in good enough shape to make it up that big hill.” [that's the hill up NE 102nd Avenue in Parkrose]
“I ought to ride my bike,” said a co-worker, “but it’s just [...]